The eloquent pianist Roman Rabinovich has been highly lauded by The New York Times, BBC Music Magazine, the San Francisco Classical Voice and others. He has performed throughout Europe and the United States in venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre in New York, the Millennium Stage of Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Rabinovich has participated in festivals including Marlboro, Lucerne, Davos, Prague Spring, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. An avid chamber musician, he is also a regular guest at ChamberFest Cleveland.
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Rabinovich has earned critical praise for his explorations of the piano music of Haydn. At the 2018 Bath Festival, he presented a 10-recital 42-sonata series, earning praise in The Sunday Times. 2018 also marked the start of Rabinovich’s recording project of the complete sonatas on First Hand Records, with the first volume released in November of that year to critical acclaim, including ‘album of the week’ in The Sunday Times
Recent concerto appearances include Rabinovich’s critically acclaimed debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington, as well as with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, the NFM Leopoldinum and Szczecin Philharmonic in Europe, and the Seattle Symphony, the Sarasota Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony and Sinfonia Boca Raton in the US
The 2019-20 season features among others Roman Rabinovich’s debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Sir Roger Norrington, and the Meininger Hofkapelle and Philippe Bach, as well as his recital debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank Centre’s International Piano Series. On 31 May 2020, on the anniversary of Haydn’s death, Rabinovich will curate a ‘Haydn Day’ at London’s Wigmore Hall consisting of a solo recital and two chamber concerts. 2020 also sees the release of the second volume of the complete Haydn Sonatas on First Hand Records
Born in Tashkent, Rabinovich immigrated to Israel with his family in 1994, beginning his studies there with Irena Vishnevitsky and Arie Vardi; he went on to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Seymour Lipkin, and earned his Master’s Degree at the Juilliard School where he studied with Robert McDonald. Dubbed “a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word” (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich is also a composer and visual artist.
Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056
Bartok:
Concerto No. 2, Sz..95, BB101
Beethoven:
Concerto No 1, in C major op 15
Concerto No 2, in B flat major op 19
Concerto No 3, in c minor op37
Concerto No 4, in G major op58
Concerto No 5, in E flat major op73
Choral Fantasy, op80
Brahms:
Concerto No 1, in D minor op15
Chopin:
Concerto No 1, in E minor op11
Concerto No 2 in F minor op21
Fantasy on Polish airs, op13
Dvorak:
Piano Concerto in G minor, op33
Franck:
Symphonic Variations, M 46
Grieg:
Concerto in A minor op16
Haydn:
Concerto in D major
Liszt:
Concerto No 1, in E flat major
Concerto No 2, in A major
Mendelssohn:
Double concerto for violin and piano in D minor
Concerto No 1, in G minor op 25
Concerto No 2, in D minor op 40
Concerto in A minor, MWV O2
Mozart:
Concerto in B flat major K 238
Concerto in E flat major K 271 “Jeunehomme”
Concerto in A major K.414
Concerto in F major K.459
Concerto in D minor K.466
Concerto in C major K 467
Concerto in E flat minor K.482
Concerto in A major K.488
Concerto in C minor K.491
Concerto in C major K 503
Concerto in B flat major K.595
Prokofiev:
Concerto No 1, in D-flat major op10
Concerto No 2, in G minor op16
Concerto No 3, in C major op26
Concerto No 5, G major op55
Rachmaninov:
Concerto No 2, in C minor op18
Concerto No 3, in D minor op30
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Saint-Saens:
Concerto No 2, in G minor op22
Concerto No 5 in F major, op103
Schumann:
Concerto in A minor, op.54
Introduction and Allego Appasionato op.92
Shchedrin:
Concerto No 2
Shostakovich:
Concerto No 1, in C minor for piano, trumpet and orchestra op35
Concerto No.2 in F major, op102
Stravinsky:
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky:
Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
Concerto No 2, in G major op44
Roman Rabinovich regularly enhances his performances with his own visual art. He paints, draws and also uses an iPad to create artworks. Rabinovich often provides drawings and paintings for programme booklets and brochures, some of which are featured on this page. Rabinovich’s artwork has been exhibited in the USA and Israel, on CD covers and in booklets, and in the music press.